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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: biting aluminum foil
Message-ID: <972@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 19:12:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 19:12:39 1985
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In article <66@linus.UUCP> meister@linus.UUCP (Phillip W. Servita) writes:
>>one bites aluminum foil? (of course, by mistake!!)
>>Or not? Is it a chemical or electrical phenomenon?
>
>   Aluminum + mercury (from fillings) + salt water (electrolyte) = battery.
>
It would then be an 'electro-chemical' phenomenon.

Keith Doyle
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